Agnes Taubert

Early and personal life Agnes Marie Constanze Taubert was born on 7 January 1844 in Stralsund, Kingdom of Prussia, to Albert Hartmann Taubert and Friederike Agnes Wilhelmine Taubert. Her father was an artillery colonel who was acquainted with the father of the philosopher Eduard von Hartmann. In 1872, she married von Hartmann in Berlin-Charlottenburg, and the couple had one child. Career Taubert supported her husband's Philosophy of the Unconscious and wrote two books under the pen names A. T. and A. Taubert. Both works defended Hartmann's ideas while also criticising aspects of them. Beiser states that publishing under a pen name meant that Taubert was not identified as a woman philosopher and that her work was received as if it had been written by a man. According to von Hartmann's publisher, Carl Heymons, Taubert was closely involved in planning and managing Hartmann's responses to critics during the controversy. Death Taubert died in Berlin on 8 May 1877, aged 33, of "an attack of a rheumatism of the joints", which was described as "extremely painful". == Reception ==

Beiser has described Taubert as "one of the first women to have a prominent role in a public intellectual debate in Germany". Beiser contributed a chapter on Taubert and Plümacher, titled "Two Female Pessimists", to the 2024 volume The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in the German Tradition. In 2023, Ediciones Sequitur published a Spanish translation of Taubert's , titled . == Works ==